The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

Antonia M. Varela, Héctor Vázquez Ramió, Jean Vernin, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón, Marc Sarazin, Hervé Trinquet, José Miguel Delgado, Jesús Jiménez Fuensalida ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for the ...

It is this technology that now opens the door to much bigger telescopes on the ground, for example the 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) being designed by the European Southern ...

The Chilean Andes will be the location for the world’s largest telescope: the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), costing more than €1bn, which will capture the universe's earliest ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, it could detect hints of alien life around our closest neighboring star ...

The VLT is a powerful astronomical observatory that captures high-resolution images and spectra of celestial objects, ...